"This world..." Standing on a big rock and looking at the long queue, Wang Jin couldn't help but sigh. He looked up at the waning moon in the sky and was filled with emotions.
The number of people who went up the mountain was more than twice as large as when they left the village. There were already more than a thousand people. In addition to the captives from Gejiazhuang No. 100, there were more than 500 villagers who voluntarily defected to the village.
, there are more people than there were on Liangshan Mountain before, which is why Wang Jin sighed.
What is the world that makes these people voluntarily abandon their innocence, join the village, and become bandits?
If you can still live, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, who is willing to fall into the trap of a bandit, who is willing to tarnish his innocent body? You know, in Gejiazhuang, Chen Kui just opened a warehouse to stock up on grain. His generosity made Wang Jin feel
I felt a little distressed. Every household in Gejia Town received five stones of grain and grass and five coins. You must know that Gejia Town is a town, not a village. There are thousands of households. Three people were given money at once.
One-third of the food was given away.
In addition, Chen Kui burned most of the IOUs and usury notes in front of everyone, and returned the land deeds to the original owners one by one. Under such circumstances, more than 500 people voluntarily followed Chen Kui up the mountain to drop grass.
Wang Jin saw with his own eyes that someone was kneeling and begging for shelter in the village.
One can imagine how far these people have been pushed by life.
Half of these five hundred people are young adults, and the rest are family members. Wang Jin can see that these young and middle-aged people are not lazy old fritters and idle men. On the contrary, most of them are strong men with a look of long-term physical labor.
A well-trained body makes him an honest farmer.
Such people voluntarily gave up their innocence and went to Liangshan to become bandits. Isn't this the tragedy of the Song Dynasty?
On the contrary, those idle men were unwilling to go up the mountain because they had received a sum of money and food.
"The lower household only has three or fifty acres or five or seven acres, and if you support a family of ten people, if you don't know each other well, you will end up in the ditch." Wang Jin muttered to himself. This was during the Renzong period, and the minister Ding Du handed the emperor a memorial.
The description is that during the Song Renzong period, the Song Dynasty was only sixty or seventy years old, and it was already like that, and another hundred years have passed...
"Why……"
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"Deducting the grain and copper coins given to the villagers last night, this time we got a total of 11,400 dan of grain. According to the current price of rice, it is converted into cash, which is about 25,000 dan. Gold, silver
, a total of more than 237,000 guan of copper coins, and there are also a large number of jewelry, jewelry, silk cloth, etc., worth about 15,000 guan." Qiao Daoqing said with a red face, after digging almost three feet into the ground to search.
, and a large amount of money was found from Gejiazhuang.
"Oh my God!" After listening to Qiao Daoqing's words, Du Qian couldn't help but exclaimed, this is absolutely crazy.
"Not only that, we also found about thirty-three stones of private salt, which is also a huge fortune. More importantly, after Ge Zhuo's interrogation, we have basically discovered the private salt route in Gejiazhuang.
It’s clear, as long as the relationship with Zhujiazhuang is managed well, we can definitely take over Gejiazhuang’s private salt business.”
Last night, only Ge Taigong and Ge Liang were killed. Ge Zhuo, who was captured by Chen Kui in advance, was not killed. The reason why he was kept alive was not because Chen Kui was merciful, but to learn about Gejiazhuang from his mouth.
The specific private salt trading channels will be the most important source of income for the development of Liangshan in the future.
Chen Kui actually has a better method of drying salt. In Ip Man's world, Huayao Group also worked in this industry. Chen Kui is very familiar with the method of drying salt. The salt of this era is completely incomparable with that of later generations. Regardless of
The color, output and taste are all very different. Chen Kui has reason to believe that as long as his salt appears on the market, he can definitely monopolize it and it will be a big business.
But in the short term, Chen Kui has no intention of doing this. Liangshan's strength is still too weak. It is unwise to fall out with those bold and big salt merchants now. What's more, Liangshanbo's power has not expanded to the seaside, and salt drying cannot be carried out.
Without his own salt selling network, even if he had salt, he couldn't sell it, so Chen Kui had to temporarily rely on this existing salt selling network.
"What about weapons?" Chen Kui asked. Rather than money, he was actually more concerned about weapons and protective gear. This time he poked a hornet's nest in Gejiazhuang, which would definitely attract revenge from the Jeju government, so Liangshan must do it in the shortest possible time.
In addition, Chen Kui has not forgotten that there is another Gao Qiu in Bianliang. Calculating the time, Gao Qiu should have known that he would send heavy troops to encircle and suppress him if he could not protect him.
"Then Taigong Ge took advantage of his son-in-law's status as a regiment trainer to sell military equipment. This time, he copied a total of 207 pairs of regiment cards, waist knives, fifty pairs of paper armors, seventeen pairs of leather armors, and two pairs of iron armors.
Thirty horses, three hundred and ninety-three simple swords, one hundred and thirty-two whistle sticks, thirty-five sets of bows and crossbows, three hundred and sixty pounds of pig iron, and sixty-eight usable ships."
"No wonder a small Gejiazhuang has nearly 300,000 yuan in assets. It sells private salt and weapons. The salt and iron are all taken away. How can it not be rich?" Du Qian said with emotion.
"Okay, with these family backgrounds, then I have confidence in my heart." Chen Kui looked at Wang Jin and said: "Brother Wang, there were a total of 267 young and middle-aged people who went up the mountain with us yesterday, including those who were willing to surrender.
Prisoners with innocent backgrounds should be able to pull out a team of 300 people. I also ask Brother Wang to spare no effort to make this team form a fighting force as soon as possible. The Jeju government's purge operation is not far away. We must form it as soon as possible.
Combat power."
"Don't worry, village leader, I will train them as soon as possible." Wang Jin stood up and said with his fists clasped.
"That's very good, military advisor. You will fully cooperate with Brother Wang in terms of supplies. The top priority of the village is to defeat the Jeju government troops that will arrive soon. Everything must serve this matter."
"yes!"
"Captain, what about me?" Du Qian asked when he saw that Wang Jin and Qiao Daoqing were busy.
"I wonder if Brother Du is familiar with Shijie Village?" Chen Kui asked.
"The leader of the village wants to invite the three heroes of the Ruan family?" Du Qian asked.
Chen Kui nodded and said: "Actually, I wanted to invite them to join the army before going up the mountain this morning, but I missed it by some mistake. Now that I have free time, I just happened to go there. I'm afraid I can defeat the Jeju army and horses cleanly.
You still have to look at the three Ruan brothers."
"Brother, think twice. We have just done such an earth-shattering event. Next, we will face the encirclement and suppression by the Jeju army. If the Ruan brothers are timid and dare not go up the mountain to weed, it is a trivial matter. If they are greedy for the government's silver reward, they will attack my brother.
If you think about it, something is very wrong. For the sake of safety, I asked my brother to stay in the village. I am willing to take a trip on my behalf," Du Qian said.
"Brother, what Brother Du said is reasonable. A gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall. My brother is in the village for comfort and must not take risks easily. All he needs to do is write a handwritten letter and invite the three heroes of the Ruan family to come up the mountain.
"Qiao Daoqing suggested.
PS: Thanks to "Snake Gentleman" for the 500 starting coin reward!